Midnight Magic is the pinball simulator Glenn Axworthy programmed for the Atari 2600, published in 1986 despite displaying a 1984 copyright on screen — the delay is explained largely by the 1983 video game crash. It was Atari's second attempt at simulating a pinball table after the more rudimentary Video Pinball, this time with more believable physics and, for the first time on a home console, four flippers instead of two.
The game started life under the name Pinball Wizard, as a tribute to The Who's song, and only later adopted the title Midnight Magic under license from Broderbund, though it ended up with a completely different table from the Apple II original it took its name from, David's Midnight Magic. It's one of the most technically ambitious sports simulations in the Atari 2600's late catalog.
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